“This recall is bigger than California. What’s happening here is part of an ongoing national effort by Republicans to steal elections they cannot win.”
— Gray Davis, village idiotNaked Venus
Whenever a “wacky Japan” story appears, people will pop up who swear that it’s not really like that over there, and that you could live there for months without seeing anything weird, creepy, fetishistic, or batshit insane.
Old-school potpourri
It doesn’t say whether it’s an English or an Aromatic, but I’ve often thought that a good pipe tobacco would make a better potpourri than the usual overpowering seasonal mixes. People seem to like the room note of Captain Black; wonder if I could get away with a little dish of it in the living room when the family comes out for Christmas.
Or maybe I should sprinkle some on my kō incense burner.
Western food is destroying Japan
No, really:
Building a modern Ghostbuster...
University of Maryland announces portable particle accelerators. No word yet on crossing the streams.
A better world...
You know the one thing that’s really, truly gotten better about system administration? Now, when you’re sitting in the computer room poking at a sick server and checking the status of hours-long processes with lsof, strace, and tcpdump, you can watch Doctor Who on your phone.
"Wake up, sheeple!"
Actual caption to this picture at The Seattle Times, of a group protesting Amazon’s “corporate greed”:
Protesters gather at Westlake Park on Guy Fawkes Day. All three masks were purchased from Amazon for $6 each using the Amazon Prime account of gold mask’s mom. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)
Dear Hello!Project Costume Designers,
Yes:
No:
